Several royal brides did not seem to have their “something blue” bring them luck if it came in the form of Queen Elizabeth II.
Eagle-eyed fans were left wondering whether the late monarch could have inadvertently cursed a series of royal couples after they spotted an eerie pattern she followed for several decades.
TikTok user stories_from_the_jewellery_box was the first to share their doubts when they posted a video highlighting how most of the weddings at which the late Queen had donned blue ended up in divorce.
The user noted she first wore a Norman Hartnell-designed turquoise silk taffeta gown paired up with a matching three-quarters sleeves bolero and hat for the wedding of her sister Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong-Jones in May 1960.
The socialite princess and the photographer’s relationship became notoriously rocky by the mid-1960s but they remained married for 18 years after producing two children.
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The late Queen once again opted for a blue outfit to attend the wedding of her daughter, Princess Anne, to Mark Phillips in November 1973. She chose a royal blue skirt suit with matching accessories and white gloves.
The Princess Royal and her first husband welcomed their son Peter in 1977 and later their daughter Zara Tindall in 1981.
The pair remained married until April 1992, only a few months after a DNA showed Phillips had fathered a daughter with another woman in 1985.
Anne went on to marry Sir Timothy Laurence, a former commander in the Royal Navy with whom she had started a relationship as early as 1989.
Their affair became public knowledge after details of their private correspondence were leaked to the British press. They married in Scotland in December 1992.
Her late Majesty once more went for a blue outfit for what was then dubbed the wedding of the century between then-Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.
While Diana’s iconic wedding gown remains the most-talked-about outfit of the day, the late Queen opted for a seasonally-appropriate light blue cocktail dress paired up with a classic string of pearls and gloves.
The marriage troubles Charles and Diana experienced in the final phases of their own marriage came to be known as the “War of the Waleses.”
After welcoming sons Prince William and Prince Harry in the early-1980s, their relationship grew colder and they both entered extra-marital affairs.
The animosity grew so bitter by the early 1990s that the late Queen is believed to have intervened directly and ordered they divorce.
Royal author Angela Levin said in 2020: “This was the monarch taking over, not so much the mother or the mother-in-law, saying, ‘I insist on a divorce. I see this as ridiculous, it’s not going to work with being separated.’ They had to divorce.”
Penny Junor argued Her late Majesty stepped in because Charles and Diana’s conduct – which included the controversial Panorama interview and Charles’s comments to reporter Jonathan Dimbleby – was dividing the country.
Junior said: “The monarchy was going through a really, really rocky time because monarchy is supposed to be all about unifying the country.
“What Charles and Diana were doing by being at war with one another was splitting the country.”
The last recorded occasion in which the late Queen chose a blue dress for a royal wedding was the nuptials of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson in 1986
The periwinkle dress appeared to be perfectly coordinated with Elizabeth, the Queen Mother’s own floral ensemble.
But much like the previous three occasions, Andrew and Sarah’s wedding collapsed following the birth of their two daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.
The couple officially split in 1996 but has remained very close after choosing to continue raising their daughters together.
After the pattern emerged, royal fans admitted the coincidence was rather eerie – with TikTok user MariaVonBeaverHausen saying: “I think if the Queen showed up to my wedding wearing any hue of blue I’d cancel the wedding and have a grand party.”
Another user, Omwoolisa, wrote: “Why didn’t she just stop wearing blue dresses then?”
But others simply dismissed speculation of a curse, with VictoriaAstrida commenting: “No, no curse, no such thing.
“The divorce rates are probably more for royals, such a difficult situation, so much publicity.”
